Sunday, August 19, 2007

Bianca Maria Sforza (April 5, 1472 – December 31, 1510) was the daughter of Duke Galeazzo Maria Sforza of Milan. She was born in Milan. On 16 March 1494, she married Emperor Maximilian I, who had been a widower since the death of his first wife Mary of Burgundy in 1482. She died at Innsbruck in 1510. A noteworthy portrait of Bianca Maria Sforza by Ambrogio de Predis hangs in the National Gallery of Art of the United States in Washington, D.C.